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rp_photo wrote:I tend to get in a lot more confrontations online vs. face-to-face.

People will dish out threats and insults online that they would never dare to do in person. It seems like they will go ballistic over trivial stuff like whether Schwinn bicycles are trash or just junk.

I rarely get as much as a dirty look in person because I am mean looking. Even panhandlers tend to leave me alone unless they are brain-damaged or mentally ill.

- Jim

It seems the currently available level of technology enables this obsessive-compulsive behavior.

Back in the day, when most people had only one land line in their house and it cost real money, there were occasional outbreaks of harassing or obscene phone calls—but they weren't common and often could be traced. Parents generally did not let their kids use the phone a lot, and certainly would not have tolerated a kid making hundreds of phone calls.

I remember one time in the 1960s the cops came and hauled away the 20-ish man who lived next door to us in handcuffs. It turned out he had been making obscene phone calls from a public phone in a drug store a couple of blocks away.

Then there were the threatening letters made from words cut out of magazines—something you see only in old movies.

Now I have heard of cases where kids send hundreds of text messages a day or engage in group cyber-bullying, as you described. They don't understand this kind of thing has consequences in real life.

- Jim

In Normal, Illinois, Friday five shotgun rounds were fired into a home. Sunday a 20-year-old man was arrested and admitted to the shootings, which evolved from a confrontation on Facebook.

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- Jim